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...Deputy Foreign Trade Minister; and Mikhail, 44, a journalist of whom little is known. There are three grandchildren: Yuri's sons Leonid, 25, and Andrei, 20, and Galina's daughter Victoria (Galya's mother). Brezhnev seems to have spent little time with them. In a candid moment, he once talked about his relationship with his son Yuri. "We don't see each other much," said Brezhnev, "because of work-his and mine." -By Claudia Wallis
David Stockman, White House Budget Director, in the wake of his candid comments to The Atlantic Monthly, as he opened a meeting: "Is this on the record or off the record...
...Mircea Eliade remains one of the world's great authorities on the myths and symbols of religion. Teaching and writing (more than 50 books), he has always had a sympathetic ear for the exotic, and even erotic, spiritual quests of the young. In this candid autobiography, covering his first 30 years, the historian portrays himself as a scapegrace whose enormous appetite for life embraced both the intellectual and the sensual...
...near the freeway, in a raw mat of sodded lawn-a poignant dry-green whiffle of grass with a single sapling in it that gives no more shade than a swizzle stick. The house has the frank, bleak starkness of the cut-rate. Its interiors are minimalist, and grimly candid about it. No woodwork, no extras, no little frills of gentility any more. No front hall. One bathroom, with the cheapest fixtures, no bathtub...
Traditional diplomatic effusiveness? Not entirely. During two days of candid private talks the two leaders, who were meeting for the first time, seemingly developed an easy friendship, which Reagan's advisers regarded as one of the prime goals of the visit. Begin told his aides that he found Reagan "a warm person, very kind, quite open" and "not a highbrow." Said one Israeli aide: "The Prime Minister really likes him." Reagan called the talks "very warm and productive." The relaxed mood was indicated by Reagan, when he said of Begin at a kosher state dinner: "I have a funny...